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2019-07-22

• 18:43 UTC (new) (history) 2019-07-22 Increasing timeout in nginx . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today’s is a short follow-up to the post about debugging Node.js programs in a Vagrant virtual machine. It turns out that it lacked one important piece. It’s all and good in an artificial environment of an isolated script – but when we debug a real Node.js application, the server will timeout while we are slowly stepping through code.

2019-07-15

• 18:31 UTC (new) (history) 2019-07-15 Batch Org agenda . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Org-mode agenda is a notoriously complex system. It is really great from a user’s perspective, but a nightmare for a programmer wanting to tap into its generation. A long time ago I have had an idea for a productivity tool which would compute my “agenda score” (for lack of a better name), where each task not yet done would contribute to a total of some kind of “penalty” points – and more of them depending on how long the task is overdue. However, I am probably too stupid to be able to understand what is going on under the hood of org-agenda, and I started to look for better ways. There do exist some tools which might help with that – org-super-agenda being one of them, but there are probably others. Still, I felt this is not the best way. I decided to drop my idea (at least until I have more time and motivation to get back to it). After some time, however, I came back to org-agenda, this time from another direction.

2019-07-08

• 21:02 UTC (new) (history) 2019-07-08 Pausing an Emacs keyboard macro . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I promised last week, I’d like to describe something I probably knew a long time ago, but completely forgot about. You can pause an Emacs keyboard macro during its execution. But wait, there’s more!

2019-07-01

• 18:31 UTC (new) (history) 2019-07-01 Syntax-aware navigation, keyboard macros, sleeping Emacs and interactive functions . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago I had an interesting Emacs-related problem. I wanted to record and use a keyboard macro which would find a certain TeX one-parameter macro (say, \todo) and comment it out. The tricky part was that it was not at all guaranteed that this macro would be on a line on its own, so “finding the string \todo, going to the beginning of the line and inserting a percent character” won’t work.

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